During her Doctorate of Musical Arts candidacy at Stony Brook University, she was recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Grant while studying under the tutelage of Jeffrey Khaner and Carol Wincenc.She received her Master of Music at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with Amy Porter and Bachelor of Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Timothy Day. She was the recipient of the Nelson Hauenstein Memorial Scholarship, the Robert & Sylvia Zell Memorial Scholarship, and the J&V McIntosh Memorial Scholarship.

As a Scientist and Mathematician, she is pursuing her Ph.D in Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University, while conducting research in Dr. Jon Oatley's lab investigating mechanisms within spermatogonial stem cells that regulate self-renewal and differentiation. In 2011, she worked in Dr. Michael Smerdon's and Dr. John Wyrick's labs, studying the role of chromatin structure in regulating DNA repair in yeast. She pursued her Post-Baccalaureate in Microbiology and Mathematics at Washington State University where she was the T.A. for the Introductory to Microbiology course (MBios 101). She was a member of Dr. Wenfeng An's lab researching the mechanisms of mammalian LINE-1 retrotransposition and applications in functional genomics(2010). During her tenure at WSU, she was recipient of the Undergraduate in Biological and Mathematical summer research grant (2011). In spring 2010, she was invited to present her research in the Antifungal Properties of Streptomyces at the Spokane Intercollegiate Research Conference. During 2003-2005, she participated as a research and teaching assistant in a three-year project for Girl Power 21st Century funded by the National Science Foundation(NSF). In her free time, she is an avid traveler, ballerina, singer, and chef.